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List Of Indian Comedians
This is a list of notable Indian comedians, sorted by country or area of notability. India * 2 Foreigners In Bollywood * Ahsaan Qureshi * Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati) * Akaash Singh * Ali * Allu Ramalingaiah * Amit Bhadana * Anubhav Singh Bassi * Anup Kumar * Appurv Gupta * Atul Khatri * Bharti Singh * Bhuvan Bam * Binnu Dhillon * Biswa Kalyan Rath * Brahmanandam (Kanneganti Brahmanandam) * Charle * Chinmoy Roy * Goundamani * Gurpreet Ghuggi * Gursimran Khamba * Harisree Ashokan * Harsha Chemudu * Jagathy Sreekumar * Janagaraj * Jaswinder Bhalla * Jaya Prakash Reddy * Johny Lever Janumala * Kader Khan * Kanan Gill * Kaneez Surka * Kapil Sharma * Karthik Kumar * Kenny Sebastian * Keshto Mukherjee * Kishore Kumar * Kunal Kamra * Mallika Dua * Mehmood * Mubeen Saudagar * Munawar Faruqui * Mir * M. S. Narayana * Santhanam * Santhanam * Nishant Tanwar * Prudhvi Raj * Padmanabham * Papa CJ * Rabi Ghosh * Raghu Babu * Raja Babu * Rajendra Nath * Rajpal Yadav * Rao Gopal Rao * Reh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian People
Indians or Indian people are the Indian nationality law, citizens and nationals of India. In 2022, the population of India stood at over 1.4 billion people, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous country, containing 17.7 percent of the global population. In addition to the Indian population, the Non-resident Indian and Overseas Citizen of India, Indian overseas diaspora also boasts large numbers, particularly in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf and the Western world. While the demonym "Indian" applies to people originating from the present-day Republic of India, it was also formerly used as the identifying term for people originating from Pakistan and Bangladesh during British Raj, British colonial era until 1947. Particularly in North America, the terms "Asian Indian" and "East Indian" are sometimes used to differentiate Indians from the indigenous peoples of the Americas; although the Native American name controversy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biswa Kalyan Rath
Biswa Kalyan Rath is an Indian stand-up comedian, writer and YouTuber. He is from Odisha. He came into prominence through the YouTube comedy series, ''Pretentious Movie Reviews'' with fellow comedian Kanan Gill. He played a supporting role in the 2016 Netflix sex comedy film '' Brahman Naman''. He created the 2017 Amazon Prime Video's series ''Laakhon Mein Ek''. On 9 December 2020, Rath married actress Sulagna Panigrahi. Career After graduation in Biotechnology from IIT Kharagpur in 2012, he worked in graphic design, advertising, and software. It was during this time that he met Kanan Gill at an open mic event in Bangalore in 2013. He quit his job at Oracle in 2014 to become a full-time comedian. Biswa and Kanan came up with the idea of the Pretentious Movie Reviews, a series of videos which soon went viral on YouTube. In this series, they review critically panned Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johny Lever
Johnny Lever (born John Prakash Rao Janumala; 14 August 1957) is an Indian actor and popular comedian who is known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is one of the first stand-up comedians in India. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including thirteen Filmfare Awards nominations in Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role, and has won the award twice, for his work in ''Deewana Mastana'' (1997) and ''Dulhe Raja'' (1998). He began his career in 1984, and has acted in more than three hundred Hindi films. Early life Lever was born on 14 August 1957 in a Telugu Christian family in Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh. His father worked as an operator in Hindustan Unilever plant where he also worked as a labourer for six years. Lever was brought up in King's Circle area of Dharavi in Mumbai. His mother tongue is Telugu and is fluent in Hindi, Marathi, English and Tulu. He is the eldest in the family consisting of three sisters and two brothers (including his younger brother Ji ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaya Prakash Reddy
Jaya Prakash Reddy (8 May 1946 – 8 September 2020) was an Indian actor who predominantly appeared in Telugu films. Born in Sirvel of Andhra Pradesh, he came into the limelight with the film ''Samarasimha Reddy'' (1999) where he played the role of Veera Raghava Reddy. He acted as an antagonist in several films such as ''Jayam Manade Raa'' (2000) and '' Chennakesava Reddy'' (2002). Later in his career, he was also featured in many comic roles. He died at his home in Guntur on 8 September 2020, at an age of 74, from massive cardiac arrest. He was honoured with Special Jury Award (Alexander) for his contribution to Tollywood at the 16th Santosham Film Awards. Selected filmography Telugu films Tamil films Kannada films Awards *Nandi Award for Best Villain - Jayam Manadera (2000) (in Telugu Telugu may refer to: * Telugu language, a major Dravidian language of India *Telugu people, an ethno-linguistic group of India * Telugu script, used to write the Telugu language ** T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaswinder Bhalla
Jaswinder Bhalla (born 4 May 1960) is an Indian actor and comedian who works in Punjabi cinema. He started his professional career as a comedian in 1988 with Chankata 88 and became actor with film Dulla Bhatti. He is best known for his comedy series Chankatta and comedy roles in various Punjabi films. He is famous for always using taglines in his movies, and bringing a comic touch to movies through them. He also performs in stage acts and has done tours of Canada and Australia for his stage show ''Naughty Baba in Town''. Childhood Jaswinder Bhalla was born on 4 May 1960 in the city of Ludhiana. His father Master Bahadur Singh Bhalla was a primary school teacher in village Barmalipur . He got his basic education from Senior Secondary School Doraha. Education and career He did his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Punjab Agricultural University, and his Ph.D. from Chaudhry Charan Singh University, Meerut. He began his career as an Assistant Professor in PAU, and was serving as a Professor an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janagaraj
Janagaraj is an Indian actor who has appeared in over 200 films predominantly in Tamil cinema as a comedian or in supporting roles. He also starred in few Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films. Early life Janagaraj was born to Vadivelu and Muthulakshmi in Chennai Tamil Nadu. He joined the Auditor General's Office as a Junior Division Clerk in 1976 and worked part-time as a theatre artist and a stage artist due to his desire to act and perform. He was friendly with Delhi Ganesh, another AGS employee who remains his closest friend to date. Janagaraj joined Director Bharathiraja as his unofficial assistant. After seeing his talent during the shooting of ''Kizhake Pogum Rail'', Bharathiraja gave him the chance to act as a Brahmin in the same movie. Later in Puthiya Vaarpugal, Bharathiraja gave Janagaraj another sensational character as a minor boy of the villain (G. Srinivasan). Janagaraj had acted with a trouser and baniyan for that movie. Janagaraj found his break in 1980 in Bharat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagathy Sreekumar
Sreekumar P. K. (born 5 January 1951), better known by his stage name Jagathy Sreekumar or simply Jagathy, is an Indian actor, director and playback singer, who has appeared in over 1500 Malayalam films in a career spanning almost four decades. Widely regarded as one of the most influential actor and finest comedian in the history of Malayalam cinema, he is also known for his highly nuanced character roles. He is the son of acclaimed dramaturge and writer, the late Jagathy N. K. Achary. Jagathy Sreekumar won five Kerala State Film Awards among numerous other awards for his roles in various films. He has also directed two films and written screenplays for two more. His stage name is derived from the neighborhood of Jagathy in Trivandrum from where he hails. He is an outspoken orator holding strong views, quite unlike his onscreen image and his speeches are still popular. Jagathy was involved in a vehicle accident in March 2012 and was hospitalized for over a year. He is stil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harsha Chemudu
Harsha Chemudu (born 31 August 1990), popularly known as "Viva" Harsha, is an Indian actor and comedian who works in Telugu films. He started his acting career with the viral web series "Viva" on YouTube with which he came to be known as "Viva" Harsha. He pursued his Engineering in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Early life He was born and brought up in a middle-class family in Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. He completed his early schooling from Vingam Vidyalayam School in his hometown and his degree in Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Chaitanya Engineering College in Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh, India. Since childhood, he was inclined towards acting and filming and always wanted to be a successful actor in the Telugu film industry. His father, Satyanarayana Rao, is a bank manager at Federal Bank. His mother, Rama Devi, is a homemaker. He was an introvert till he started acting in short films and joined the Telugu film industry. Caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harisree Ashokan
Harisree Ashokan is an Indian actor and director who is known for his comedy roles in Malayalam films. Ashokan has acted in more than 200 Malayalam films. He started his career as a mimicry artist in the troupe Harisree and then worked in Kalabhavan. Early life Ashokan (nicknamed Babu) was born as the sixth child among ten children to the late Kunjappan and late Janaki on April 6, 1964, at Ernakulam, Kochi. He has nine siblings, the late Raveendran, the late Sasindran, Mohanan, Anil, Sunil, Santha, Vimala, and the late Sujatha. He had his primary education from MIHS Ernakulam. After tenth he joined Kuyilin's Cochin Kalavedi. He holds a diploma in Telecom Engineering from Ernakulam, Kerala. He found work as an assistant lineman in 1984 with the Telecom Department in Cochin, Kerala. He worked until 1987 when he rose to become a lineman. While working there he joined Kalabhavan and worked for 6 years and later moved to Harisree, after which he began to be called 'Harisree Ashokan' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gursimran Khamba
All India Bakchod (abbreviated as AIB) was a Mumbai-based comedy company which created the eponymous podcast, YouTube channel and production company. The name is a parody of All India Radio. It began in 2012 as a humour/pop-culture podcast co-started by comedians Tanmay Bhat and Gursimran Khamba. Their friends and contemporary comedians, Rohan Joshi and Ashish Shakya were frequent guests and the four co-founded the YouTube channel in 2013 and began making sketches. They subsequently formed a digital agency and produced sketches, live comedy and TV shows. In October 2018, the company halted operation and fired its entire staff, after Bhat and Khamba were implicated in two separate sexual harassment allegations. No formal charges were made but the company dissolved in May 2019. Khamba was dissatisfied with the independent investigation into the allegation against him and has since disassociated himself with the company and brand. The company's four founders continue to work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurpreet Ghuggi
Gurpreet Singh Waraich (born 19 July 1971), commonly known as Gurpreet Ghuggi, is an Indian actor, comedian and politician. He is known for his works in Punjabi and Hindi films. Ghuggi began his career by acting in theatre in the early 1990s, after which he had recurring roles in television series such as ''Ronak Mela'' and the soap opera ''Parchhaven''. He gained international public recognition with comedic leading roles through his videos ''Ghuggi Junction'' (2003) and ''Ghuggi Shoo Mantar'' (2004), before beginning his film career by starring as Patwari Jhilmil Singh in ''Asa Nu Maan Watna Da'' (2004). He starred in the film ''Carry On Jatta'' (2012), and was praised for his meaningful leading role in Ardaas (2015). Personal life Gurpreet Singh Waraich was born on 19 July 1971 in Gurdaspur in Punjab. He is married to Kuljeet Kaur with whom he has a son and a daughter. Acting career Early career Ghuggi's career began with his appearance in several theatrical plays. In the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goundamani
Subramaniyan Karuppaiya (born 25 May 1939), known by his stage name Goundamani, is an Indian actor and comedian who works in Tamil cinema. He is known for his comic duo partnership in Tamil films with fellow actor Senthil. The pair dominated the Tamil industry as comedians in the 1980s and 90s. He was called Goundamani after acting as a Gounder in one of his early day dramas and the pseudonym stuck with him forever. He has the ability to give counter dialogues on the spot and off the script on stage and during shooting but it has nothing to do with his screen name, contrary to popular belief (as counter is a term that was popular only from the late 2000s). He was at his peak of his career as a comedian in Tamil cinema for nearly 40 years. Despite his popularity, Goundamani is known for being a social recluse. Early life Goundamani was born as Subramaniyan on 25 May 1939 in Vallakundapuram, a village near Pollachi in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. His father is Karuppaiya an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
